CAREER SUMMARY

• 20+ years of I.T experience in the design and development of software systems in the areas of life insurance, benefits administration, agribusiness, manufacturing and government sector related projects. Highly proficient in the functional and technical areas of PeopleSoft/ADP HRMS systems, commercial applications design and development on mainframe systems. Experienced in all the aspects of the software development lifecycle including requirements definition, design, development, quality assurance, deployment, training & support.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Programmer Analyst / Project Lead, Confidential, Des Moines, IA March 1997 – Present

• Implemented PeopleSoft HCM 9.0 for United Airlines client. Facilitated meetings with project team members and defined the business and technical requirements. Defined configuration design details, as needed for Manager and Employee Self Service applications. Developed SQRs, Application Engine programs, PeopleCode, Pages, Components and customizations to Cobol batch programs for PeopleSoft 9.0 benefits administration.
• Involved in the installation and implementation of PeopleSoft HRMS 7.5 for HSBC client. Coordinated in a lead role for the development teams to customize People Tools and SQR modifications.
• Involved in the Open Enrollment and Event Maintenance processes for Horizon/EV2 clients including Energizer, Medica, CSR-America, Telcordia Technologies & ACE. Worked extensively on the customization of EV2 panels using Ebuilder, creating and modifying record definitions, building security views, creating menus, operator security, database security and application security, data mover and upgrade utility for moving projects to production and/or other database environments.
• Implemented PeopleSoft HRMS 7.0 for BellSouth Corporation client. Responsible for all the customizations to SQRs, panels, PeopleCode, Benefits Administration and Deduction Calculation Cobol batch programs. Developed procedures for Open Enrollment and Event Maintenance processes. Responsible for administration of Process Scheduler. Prepared and executed gap analysis, design and development of benefit interfaces.
• Responsible for installation of PeopleSoft HRMS 6.0 for United Airlines and USBC clients and PeopleSoft HRMS 5.10 for BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc client.
• Extensively programmed using Informix-4GL & UNIX Shell Scripts for Event Maintenance processes, vendor file interfaces, custom reports for benefits administration clients that include Unum-Provident, United Airlines. Performed setup of new databases and design of migration procedures.
• Developed and maintained project plans, project scope and requirements documents. Prepared road map for conversion planning and data mapping to PeopleSoft Application. Developed and executed testing scripts for Functional Unit testing, System Regression testing and Data Conversion validation testing. Documented and managed defects related to the testing of the designed solutions.
• Performed key role in PeopleSoft migration, System and Security administration activities.

Tools and Environment: PeopleSoft HRMS 5.10 - 9.0, People Tools, People Code, SQR, Data Mover, PeopleSoft COBOL, Oracle 9i, Informix 10.0, Solaris 10, Tuxedo 9.1, Horizon and EV2

Senior Consultant / Project Lead, Confidential, Des Moines, IA March 1994 – Feb 1997

• Performed lead role in the development & maintenance of GUL system on HP/3000 to administer Group Universal Life for most of the Fortune-500 companies.
• Responsible for the development, testing of Personal Benefits Processing system for IBM.
• Performed lead Role in the analysis, design & development of Problem Driver Pointer system. Performed COBOL to COBOL II migration of the Provider system.

Tools and Environment: COBOL, COBOL II, IBM MVS / XA

Senior Systems Analyst / Project Lead, Confidential, IL July 1991 – Feb 1994

• Responsible for analysis, development and acceptances of various mainframe (IBM 3090) projects.
• Developed Re-Engineering (RE) methodologies.
• Involved in the development, porting, testing of Client/Server applications using TCP/IP, APPC and ‘C’.
• Involved in the Object Modeling of systems for Enterprise Integration Architecture (EIA) using PTECH.
• Involved in the analysis, design & development of Invoice Image system that is used to facilitate the invoice data retrieval for John Deere dealers. System analysis was done using CASE tool ADW and the development on IBM 3090 using DB2, IMS DB/DC and APS-COBOL.
• Responsible for executing offsite-engineering projects of Deere & Co, USA at Chennai, India using Satellite Communications Link.
• Project management of various offshore projects. Responsible for staffing/team building, training and managing offshore projects. Single point of contact for the offshore & USA teams on all project related matters. Led 6-member team and involved in the analysis, design and development of Work Station Development system using DB2, ADW, and APS-COBOL.
• Involved in developing the procedures and methodology for offsite software development projects (Deere & Co).
• Involved in the Re-Engineering of Destination System using CASE tool ADW and APS-COBOL.

Tools and Environment: C, COBOL, APS, IBM 3090, ADW, DB2, IMS

Software Engineer, Confidential, Bangalore, India August 1988 – June 1991

• Involved in the design and development of various software systems for Aircraft Major Company, India.
• Involved in the design and development of Project Management Tool used for Scheduling. The tool was developed using DB2, ISPF, FORTRAN, PASCAL and CLIST on IBM 3090.
• Involved in the development of Bus Load Analysis tool for LCA project. This tool estimated bus load on any bus-based Multiprocessor system using analytical modeling technique PETRI NETS. This was developed using DB2, ISPF, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and CLIST on IBM 3090.
• Involved in the design and development of System Design Tool which facilitated in the analysis and design of a system. This was based on the CASE methodology SADT (Systems Analysis and Design Technique). The system Blue- print was created using this tool. This was developed using DB2, ISPF, GDDM, FORTRAN, and CLIST on IBM 3090.

Tools and Environment: DB2, ISPF, IBM 3090

Project Associate, Confidential Hyderabad, India May 1987- July 1988

• Contributed to the design and development of Print Spooler for Transaction Processing environment in UNIX using C.

Tools and Environment: UNIX, C

TECHNICAL SKILLS
ERP: PEOPLESOFT HRMS 9.0, 7.5, 7.0, 6.01, 6.0 and 5.10
Software: PeopleSoft Application Designer, Application Engine, People Tools , PeopleCode, Tree Manager, Mass Change, Process Scheduler, Application Messaging, Data Mover, HRIZON-EV2, ISPF/PDF, JCL, TSO, Clist, IMS/DC, Micro focus Workbench, QEDIT, SUPRTOOL, SCCS, PVCS, KSAM, VSAM and TCP / IP ( Communication SW)
Case Tools: ADW
Database: Oracle7.x/8.x/9.x, Informix, DB2 and IMS
Reporting Tools: SQR 4.x/6.x,Crystal Reports 8.4 and PeopleSoft Query
Software Languages: SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, PeopleCode, Informix 4GL, APS, APS/PC, COBOL , VS COBOL II, Visual Basic , APL2 , Transact/SQL, C, Fortran, Pascal and Lisp
Testing Tools: Traps, Witt, XPEDITER, TRAX, QTP, WinRunner and Quality Center
Hardware & Operating Systems: IBM 3090, PS/2, IBM PCS, HP 3000, HP 9000, HP-UX, MVS/XA, MPX, OS/2, UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows XP

EDUCATION

• M. S., Computer Science & Engineering.
• B. S., Electronics & Communication Engineering.

SOFTWARE TRAINING

• Introduction to HR & Benefits
• PeopleSoft Benefits Administration 9.0
• People Tools 8.48, Data Management and Upgrade, People Code
• EV2
• Visual Basic 5.0, APS/PC Client Server
• Micro Focus COBOL Workbench
• ADW Analysis/Design Workstations
• Testing & Quality Control

OTHERS

• US Citizen and eligible for Security Clearance